Or: ‘Photographer Has 25-year Relationship With Cambodia. Ends Up Shooting Shopping Mall’… The opening of the first Aeon mall along Sothearos boulevard is an undeniable success. Throngs of visitors clog the neighbouring streets to visit what they were denied so far: a genuine shopping mall, a temple dedicated to the consumerists’ gods. According to Prime […]
It feels like going through an office routine: 8:00AM, opposition CNRP lawmaker and sympathisers attach banners requesting Freedom Park be returned to its initial function, and at 8:15AM Boeung Kak lake has a protest in front of the European Union delegation offices. In a recent little twist regarding the Boeung Kak lake land issue saga […]
Several Cambodian civil society groups, mainly land rights activists and monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), together with an opposition CNRP lawmaker and a union leader, joined in front of the Thai embassy to protest the treatment of the 200,000 migrant workers, both legal and illegal, who were forced to leave […]
The Boeung Kak lake community keeps putting pressure on the Phnom Penh Municipality. This time 18 families who were evicted in 2010 during the filling of the lake with sand, started in 2007 by a development company, demand that land titles be issued according to the size fo the land they had and not to […]
The full set about the migrant exodus photographs is now uploaded on my website at THIS LINK… We’re talking about 55 photographs. It’s not because there is a sample here below that you shouldn’t visit and see the rest ;-)…
Over the past week, and following the military coup in Thailand, nearly 200,000 Cambodian migrant workers have come back to their home country. It seems a series of crackdowns by the Thai immigration on illegal immigrants, combined with as of yet unfounded rumors of Cambodians having been killed by the Thai authorities, has triggered a […]
The communities of Boeung Kak lake, supported by others, gathered at the World Bank offices for yet another demonstration regarding their ongoing land issue. They hand signed a piece of paper with fake blood and left it at the gate of the compound. UPDATE: Surya Subedi, the U.N. special envoy for Human Rights to Cambodia, […]
The workers from the Ocean garment factory, owned by Bangladeshi capital and providing clothes to GAP, are on a strike to obtain their full salary instead of the 15$ offered by the management for the months operations were suspended at the factory for a lack of orders. This morning, with stalled negotiations and fearing the […]